Improvement in methods of putting up confectionery



. H. H. SNOW. "METHOD or PUTTING U'P CONFECTION'ERY. Nb. 189,807. Patented-Aprilfi, 1877.

UNITED STATES PATENT *CFFIGE.

HENRY H. SNOW, OF HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

I MPROVEMENT lN METHODS OF PUTTING UP CONFECTIONERY.

Specification forming'part of Letters Patent No. 189,807, dated April 17, 1877; application filed November 11,1876. 7 l

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY H. SNOW, of

New Haven, in the county of New Haven and constitute part of this specification, and rep-- resent, in-- Figure 1, a perspective view of the box filled; Fig. 2, a section of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of putting up confectionery, especially to that class which is easily affected by the atmosphere or contactwith each othersuch as caramels, &c. In this class of con fecti'onery, when placed in a box together, and so as to come in contact, and air permitted to pass freely between the surfaces of adjacent pieces, they soon soften or decompose.

The object of this invention is to overcome this difficulty; and it consists in providing the. box in which these articles are packed with partitions presenting a wax surface, forming individual spaces for each of the articles,

as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents a box of caramels. The box is divided into compartments by longitudinal divisions or partitions a and transverse partitions 01, forming independent apartments for each of the caramels. These partitions are made from wax, or paper coated with a waxy substance, and. the divisions are placed successivelyimupon, and between each successive caramel, not desirably made as permanent partitions, but so as to lie close upon the first, and that the second shall lie close upon that, and so on, that the meeting surfacesbt the caramels may be fully and entirely covered by this dividing medium. This excludes the air and prevents contact with the meeting surfaces, and prevents-the difficulty first referred to.

Other kinds of confectionery of the same class may be packed in the same Way as described for'caramels.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming a box constructed with individual apartments for the contents, as such I am aware is-a common device; but

What I do claim as my invention, and de sire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described method of packing caramels and like confectionery, consisting of the interposition between adjoining pieces of slips having a wax surface, and forming indi vidual compartments for each article, substantially as described.

. HEN-RY H. SNOW.

Witnesses:

J OHN E. EARLE, ULARA. BROUGHTON. 

